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New Year's Eve tornadoes kill 6 in Arkansas, Missouri.

“It sucked me out of my house and carried me across the road and dropped me,” Chris Sisemore of Cincinnati told The Associated Press.Tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air pummeled the South and Midwest on December 31, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more across Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois. Three people died in the northwestern Arkansas hamlet of Cincinnati when a tornado touched down just before sunrise, and three others died when a storm spawned by the same weather system ripped up the Missouri countryside near Rolla.Storms later knocked out power to more than 19,000 Mississippi residents, while broad swaths of Louisiana and Mississippi were under severe weather watches and warnings that threatened New Year’s Eve revelry.